Norden Folk's Domain

[jerry revelle]

Earlier this week I was invited to give a presentation about Swedish genealogy at the Eau Claire Public Library and offer guidelines to some members of the GRSEC, a local genealogy group.

I am first and foremost not a genealogy expert, or even close, but years ago through friendships in Sweden I happen to fall into the acquaintance of several persons who are, both in Scandinavia and England.

Thus, in Sweden, my "roots" were handed to me in a thick brown envelope and in England, it would take a warehouse to house them.

The friendships that have followed led to further interest in my Swedish ancestors and the (Swedish) customs, long-abandoned by my ancestors upon emigrating to Nord Amerika to excape oppression from the Swedish Lutheran Church and to find a better life.

In England, I'm still considering the offer of taking a couple of tours of "Revel" and other name spelling to see their beginnings.

Through the research that followed, my genealogy skills have grown. Hopefully, I hope I was able to offer some assistance in the couple of hours I spent together with the Library group of Swedish Americans in Eau Claire.

Copies of old church book pages, emigrant lists and Swedish words presented the greatest obstacles to the researchers. What a fun group and some have really excelled in their family research.



The above event led to another invitation to present to the entire genealogy group at their monthly meeting, in the same week.



Held at the Chippewa Valley Museum (http://www.cvmuseum.com), this time I had the option to speak and show a short video about my Revelle sice, my father's links to Olde England.

What a friendly and receptive group, which included some friends, old and new.